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MSFS ZSHC Hangzhou Xiaoshan WIP
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Slowly things are getting better, but we still have a lot to do.
Remote apron #9, on a dull overcast day:
Main terminal:
I'd like to bring a clarification: all traffic shown is AI traffic compiled with AIFPv3 for MSFS and based upon FSX legacy AI models (FAIB, AIA, TFS, etc...). It's nice on the ground, but those models behave very bad in the air. All tools I've used do exist for everyone, and there's a kind of tutorial at AIG forum for those you wish to try to bring custom AI traffic into MSFS. But even with that tutorial it's uneasy and tedious to set up all these models and repaints in MSFS, so this is unfortunately not for everyone at the moment.
In no way this AI traffic setup will be included in our ZSHC release (we would never get all required permissions anyway), this is just a preview of what everyone will eventually be able to achieve when AIG releases their One Click Installer for MSFS... and what MSFS will look like at that time. This airport will be fully ready for AI operation, but you'll still have to use an AI solution when they become available (or when asobo achieves their dream of painting "every livery of the world").
Remote apron #9, on a dull overcast day:
Main terminal:
I'd like to bring a clarification: all traffic shown is AI traffic compiled with AIFPv3 for MSFS and based upon FSX legacy AI models (FAIB, AIA, TFS, etc...). It's nice on the ground, but those models behave very bad in the air. All tools I've used do exist for everyone, and there's a kind of tutorial at AIG forum for those you wish to try to bring custom AI traffic into MSFS. But even with that tutorial it's uneasy and tedious to set up all these models and repaints in MSFS, so this is unfortunately not for everyone at the moment.
In no way this AI traffic setup will be included in our ZSHC release (we would never get all required permissions anyway), this is just a preview of what everyone will eventually be able to achieve when AIG releases their One Click Installer for MSFS... and what MSFS will look like at that time. This airport will be fully ready for AI operation, but you'll still have to use an AI solution when they become available (or when asobo achieves their dream of painting "every livery of the world").
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Exterior textures are done now! (Rendered in Substance Painter)
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I use a export preset for Substance Painter. It exports albedo maps with transparency (https://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/resources/substance-painter-export-presets-for-msfs-2020.257/). In blender, the material mode must be set to "MSFS Glass". Then you plug in your maps. However, the transparency will not look very normal in Blender. You'll have to export it and see how it's like in sim.
As you know this project is also used by myself as a testbed for offline AI traffic. Here are the first experiments using airlineCodes in parking stands definition. Basically things still work as they used to with FS9 and FSX, with small adjustements.
Later on, with more general views of the progress made on the airport itself:
That's it for today.
Later on, with more general views of the progress made on the airport itself:
That's it for today.
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@chongwen20110901 how many texture sets did you use to texture this terminals? 20 or even more? 
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Absolutely. My workflow is pretty bad at the start so I ended up with like 35 texture sets.@chongwen20110901 how many texture sets did you use to texture this terminals? 20 or even more?
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Finished texturing the interior of T1 and T3.
Well with the amount of work done and this level of detail we've decided to go payware. And since everything need to be raised to that level we have no ETA yet.
The AI traffic is not a readied 'package', it's FSX models and flightplans manually added by myself in my sim during those last 3 months. It's tedious, experimental, and definitely not part of the ZSHC scenery, although it's a perfect testbed for me. More informations can be found here at AIG forums (need an logged in account to follow the link).
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It looks gorgeous. I wish I could convert my ZBAA to MSFS soon.